Exhibitions schedule
Towner Gallery 24th March to Sunday 5th June
A fantastic event and a real platform for the talent and creativity of local young people—Towner Gallery, 29 January 2016
Our Annual Schools Exhibition emerged from dialogue with teachers five years ago and has grown to one of the largest professional exhibitions of school age students’ work held in the UK.
Over 7,000 school pupils have had an opportunity to respond to Towner’s Collection and participate in this exciting exhibition in the South East’s largest art gallery.
Each year, a theme is chosen which relates to our Collection and the participating schools have guided tours of the current exhibitions and are shown the works in our collection which relate to the chosen theme. The children take inspiration from the artworks and work collaboratively to create their own responses.
This year’s theme is Walking the Line, exploring how drawing and mark-making is the starting point for expressing ourselves. Seven works were chosen from our collection which reflect this subject, including Sleeping Fawn by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1913), Eastbourne by Harold Mockford (1958) and L12 1957 by Hans Hartung (1957).
Walking the Line can be interpreted in many different ways – marking a boundary – keeping a balance between two extremes – so expect a wonderfully rich and varied exhibition of the many talents of children and young people from Eastbourne and across the county.
Comments from last year’s show—
Amazingly creative and imaginative. Well done schools!
I think this art work is amazing! The other schools have worked so so hard and I can’t believe my work is in here!
Art was never so innovative when I was at school 60+ years ago. Fantastic exhibition.
Towner (Registered Charity 115676) is an award-winning gallery in Eastbourne. We present contemporary and historic visual art major exhibitions and an associated public programme, alongside displays from our internationally renowned collection. The collection is best known for its modern British art – including the largest and most significant body of work by Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) and a growing collection of international contemporary art.
On 1 July 2014, Towner became an independent charitable Trust, supported by a Board of Trustees, chaired by David Dimbleby. Towner is supported by Eastbourne Borough Council and Arts Council England through their National Portfolio Programme.
